Miss Cairn, I Love You
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Trail of Roses
Our hiking group had just completed a four-day backpacking trip in Southern Utah. We had hiked the first part of Grand Gulch, in the 29 miles we hiked through the Gulch, which had many Prehistoric Indian Ruins. It was great weather and we had plenty of water. When we got home and unpacked, I made my way to our local Safeway grocery store to purchase a dozen roses. I hurried and grabbed a dozen roses and a bunch of baby breath, as I wanted nothing else I headed for the checkout line. The checkout clerk picked up the roses and stopped to smell the roses. She remarked they really do smell good and asked are they for your wife, I said yes Thank you. It was at that moment, I realized I had not stopped to even smell the roses. I was just going through action of living, it was this small act of the checkout clerk that I found myself stopping to smell the roses. I give this checkout clerk two thumbs up!
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Read, Ponder and enjoy the Process
Henry David Thoreau once said, "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." I agree! We must push aside our modern twenty-first century distractions. We must ride on life's experiences. The generations of man and woman have laid Cairns before us. Many of their trails are just as challenging to follow, as it is to create our own trails that kris-cross through life. We must leave Miss Cairns not just a lot of empty promises, for our future generations.
A vistor to America from India said, "American's live in paradise, I wonder if they'll ever know it." If we leave out TV's and our computer games to go and follow Miss Cairn than we can sit down to write about the sum of our life's events. Because than you will have acquired the life experiences neccessary to be of service to others. I hope each of you will challenge yourselves to participate in following Miss Cairn, because the outdoors is a beautiful and wonder place to find "you." So, the question is will you follow Miss Cairn?
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About the Book
Backpacking is a romantic way to explore your life and R.L Smith has written “Miss Cairn, I Love You” is for all people who find backpacking and romance can go together. While blending stories from his many years as an adult Boy Scout leader to his humorous way of leading the reader to follow “Miss Cairn” this beautiful pile of rocks. You will find stories about life’s challenges and his wiliness to keep on hiking and backpacking. Miss Cairn will lead you through the Grand Canyon in a way that will entice you to go-seek-and see all the beauty she has to offer.
Whether you just love life or you are a novice backpacker, you will find Miss Cairn a new and enjoyable way to explore, backpacking and doing what you love to do by following and placing cairns in your life. Read “Miss Cairn, I Love You,” a help and a hope to enjoy life! R.L Smith
About the Author
While taking a backcountry hike over 30 years ago R.L Smith started taking pictures of man-made stacks of rocks, which he later learned they were called cairns, and were used as trail markers. It was one of these trips that he fell in love with whole challenge of backpacking. He found solitude on the trails. It was this magical combination of solitude and the elusive cairn that brought to life"Miss Cairn, I Love You." The stories in the book are actual cairns he followed on his backpacking trips.
R.L Smith is an experienced, accomplished backpacker. He has completed hundreds of backpacking trips with his Boy Scout troops and fellow lovers of backpacking. He has accumulated over fifty days and nights on backcountry hikes in the Grand Canyon. Covering hundreds of miles of trails and loops hikes. He is actively involved with Boy Scouts of America. He has been an adult leader for Boy Scouts of America for over 36 years. He has been awarded the District Award of Merit and has received the Silver Beaver Award.
R.L Smith is happily married with five sons and six grandchildren. He and his wife (Judith Smith) have been married for over 43 years. They are both actively involved in Boy Scouts of America, their church and their community.
Smith, takes a very explicit interest in self-help and motivational seminars. It was that interest that pulled him through the many road blocks in his life, such as Esophageal Cancer. He survived this illness with the support of his family, the help of his doctors and will to live his life! The side effects of this illness have slowed down the process of his book, so without further ado it is my great pleasure to offer you "Miss Cairn, I Love You." enjoy! R.L Smith